Woman, four others held for husband's murder in Maduravoyal
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The murder of Raj Kumar, 29, a resident of Astalakshmi Nagar in Maduravoyal, came to light when a police team was checking vehicles on the Chennai-Bangalore national highway at 4am on Thursday.
The team, lead by sub-inspectors Sebastian and Ezhumalai of the Maduravoyal police station, stopped four men as they were returning to Kancheepuram on two bikes after the murder. The police got suspicious when they noticed blood stains on the shirt of one of the accused men.
During questioning, the man claimed that he was injured on Thursday night. However, he failed to show the wound to the police personnel.
The police took the suspects into custody. During questioning, they confessed to have killed Raj Kumar at his home as directed by their boss, Cheyyar Durai.
Police personnel went to Raj's house and found his dead body in the hall. His wife Vidya, 25, and her five-year-old daughter Deepika were sleeping in the bedroom. They took Vidya into custody for questioning. Preliminary inquiries revealed that Vidya and her boyfriend Manikandan were behind the murder of her husband.
Vidya had fallen in love with Raj Kumar eight years ago when they were working at a private export garment company in Porur. They got married and lived in a house in Maduravoyal. After a while, Vidya allegedly developed an extra marital affair with Manikandan, who was her colleague. Raj Kumar asked his wife to snap her friendship with Manikandan. However, she refused to do so.
Raj Kumar said to have harassed his wife over this issue. Manikandan allegedly devised a plan to eliminate Raj Kumar when Vidya told him about the torture she suffered at her husband's hands. He engaged Cheyyar Durai of Kancheepuram to eliminate Raj Kumar. Durai arranged four hooligans -- Perumal, Giridharan, Saravanan and Senthil - to execute the plan.
The four men came to Maduravoyal from Kancheepuram on two bikes to kill Raj Kumar. They called Vidya on her mobile after reaching her house. Vidya opened the door and allowed them to enter the house while Raj Kumar was sleeping in the hall. She held her husband's legs tightly and the men killed him by cutting his throat with knives. As they were escaping on two bikes after the murder, police caught them.
Leaving the door unlocked, Vidya went to sleep in the bedroom with a dream of cooking up a story about her husband's murder. But her dream was shattered when the police nabbed the murderers.
Police have launched a manhunt to nab Manikandan and Durai.
Chennai city police commissioner S George commended the police personnel for apprehending the suspects.
"We will reward the police personnel appreciating their effective work," Anna Nagar deputy commissioner of police S Xavier Dhanraj told TOI.
Raj Kumar's dead body was sent to the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital for postmortem.
